If we are not following Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s vision of a foreign policy, it is not a failure
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz says that our foreign policy is not a failure. I agree with our senior-most politician for numerous reasons. If Pakistan is isolated, it is not a failure. If our relations with three out of four immediate neighbours are tense, it is not a policy failure. If our policy has given birth to all kinds of manifestation of terrorism, it is not a failure. If our twin brothers fire shots at us across the border, it is not a failure. If our traditional friend, the US, continues to twist our arms, it is not a failure. Sartaj Aziz is right. If we don’t have a foreign policy, how can it fail? Pakistan does not need enemies because it can do their bidding without remorse. If we are not following Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s vision of a foreign policy, it is not a failure.
Pakistan is its own worst enemy and we seem to be proud of this. The only policy we have is to find and blame scapegoats. Thank you, Sartaj Aziz, for giving us a policy which does not fail. In your octogenarian presence, nobody needs a foreign minister because you have proved your worth by formulating a policy, which is immune to any version of failure. More power to you and your ministry, which happens to be my former employer as well.
Bashir Malik
Published in The Express Tribune, June 29th, 2016.
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